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'Free World' reverberates through JavaOne

By Robert Mullins

June 1, 2008 — (Page 1 of 2)
Neil Young’s cameo was the highlight of JavaOne 2008 last month, even if the rock legend didn’t perform. His appearance gave Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz the opportunity to link Sun’s business strategy to what Schwartz called his favorite among the musician’s 45-year career playlist: “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

The world will be better off if people can download, use, improve and share free software, Schwartz has long argued. Rock with Java software to share information with the world and let enterprises build whatever business model they choose around it. One imagines that this view also includes buying support from Sun, as well as the server and storage hardware on which to run it all.

“This is all going to be free. Freely available, philosophically free. Why? So it can travel wherever the market wants it to go,” Schwartz said, just before introducing Young as “truly a leader of the free world,” onstage at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.

Instead of playing “Comes A Time” or “Long May You Run,” Young showed off the soon-to-be-released Blu-ray DVD of his career, calling it “a chronological trip through my musical experience.” The interactive collection of music, TV appearances, photos and other videos is powered by Java technology.

But Sun is hoping to rock the free technology world in other ways. On the eve of JavaOne 2008, at CommunityOne, the company introduced the first fully open-source version of its Solaris operating system, handing out free startup disks to anyone who asked.

As computing technology goes increasingly mobile, Sun plans to serve that market with JavaFX, its answer to Adobe’s Flex and Microsoft’s Silverlight for creating rich Internet applications that run on multiple platforms. At JavaOne, Sun demonstrated how a browser-based application for photo sharing can be peeled off a Web page, plopped onto the desktop and still run—if the network it runs across is up to snuff. The Moscone Center network apparently was not, as demos on the first morning repeatedly experienced problems that stymied a few computer cowboys.

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